biography
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Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich
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pronunciation:
[pestalotsee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1746–1827)
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| biography:
| Educationist, and pioneer of mass education for poor children, born in Zürich, N Switzerland. He worked as a farmer (1769), then tried to educate waifs and strays in his home (1774). After several failed attempts, he managed to open a school at Berthoud (Burgdorf), where he wrote Wie Gertrud ihre Kinder lehrt (1801, How Gertrude Educates her Children), the recognized exposition of the Pestalozzian method, in which the process of education is seen as a gradual unfolding, prompted by observation, of the children's innate facilities. Pestalozzi International Children's Villages have been established at Trogen, Switzerland (1946) and Sedlescombe, Surrey, UK (1958). |
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